Élisabeth Combres has lived in Paris, Toulouse, Grenoble and Lima, Peru. She has worked as a reporter in France, Latin America and Africa. She began writing for young people after working as editor-in-chief for the magazine Mikado. She is the author of several children’s non-fiction titles, including Mondes Rebelles Junior, winner of the Prix Sorcières in 2002. In 2004 she collected the accounts of adolescent survivors, psychologists and humanitarian aid workers to use as the basis for this book. Broken Memory is her first novel. She lives in Grenoble, France.